Hugo Pipes
Find resources in assets
This is about global and remote resources.
- global resource
- A file within the assets directory, or within any directory mounted to the assets directory.
- remote resource
- A file on a remote server, accessible via HTTP or HTTPS.
For .Page scoped resources, see the page resources section.
Get a resource
In order to process an asset with Hugo Pipes, it must be retrieved as a resource.
For global resources, use:
For remote resources, use:
See the GoDoc Page for the resources package for an up to date overview of all template functions in this namespace.
Copy a resource
See the resources.Copy function.
Asset directory
Asset files must be stored in the asset directory. This is /assets by default, but can be configured via the configuration file’s assetDir key.
Asset publishing
Hugo publishes assets to the publishDir (typically public) when you invoke .Permalink, .RelPermalink, or .Publish. You can use .Content to inline the asset.
Go Pipes
For improved readability, the Hugo Pipes examples of this documentation will be written using Go Pipes:
{{ $style := resources.Get "sass/main.scss" | resources.ToCSS | resources.Minify | resources.Fingerprint }}
<link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ $style.Permalink }}">
Caching
Hugo Pipes invocations are cached based on the entire pipe chain.
An example of a pipe chain is:
{{ $mainJs := resources.Get "js/main.js" | js.Build "main.js" | minify | fingerprint }}
The pipe chain is only invoked the first time it is encountered in a site build, and results are otherwise loaded from cache. As such, Hugo Pipes can be used in templates which are executed thousands or millions of times without negatively impacting the build performance.